Beautiful Boy review: Timothee Chalamet and Steve Carell shine

Father Knows Best –

October 13, 2018 – Transcending its own grim subject matter, the film deals in sensitive and subtle fashion with the plight of the father. It is never judgmental about the son either. Belgian director Felix van Groeningen is far more interested in probing away as deeply as he can into the psychology of his two tortured protagonists than in delivering the usual ups and downs found in more conventional family melodramas. The film has a deliberately open-ended quality. David Sheff simply can’t work out what has happened to Nic.

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